The French novelist J.K. Huysmans, in his work “Against the Grain,” is intended to convey which of the following ideas ?

• A. The work celebrates the young Jean and his Jesuit school education as a model for the best possible education of the young.
• B. It ends with the famous line “the horror, the horror.”
• C. It explores Jean’s decision to become a recluse and a social drop-out.
• D. All of the above